| 单词 | owl-ray |
| 释义 | > as lemmasowl-ray 7. A kind of ray found off the southern English coast, perhaps the small-eyed ray, Raja microocellata. Also more fully owl-ray. Now historical.It is not clear why the fish is so called, but Raja microocellata is pale brown with small white spots and a white underside, reminiscent of the barn owl. The species now bearing the name circularis (see quot. 1862) is found in deeper water. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > raia circularis (sandy ray) owl-ray1862 sandy ray1870 1862 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands I. 115 Sandy Ray, Owl, Raia circularis. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iv. 145 Where the great owl-rays leap and flap, like giant bats, upon the tide. 1878 T. Cornish in J. Couch Cornish Fauna (ed. 2) 53 Small-eyed Ray (Raia microcellata). The Painted Ray. The Owl... Off Pra-sand in Mount's Bay, quite three-fourths of the rays caught are ‘Owls’. 1963 R. M. Nance Gloss. Cornish Sea-words 122 Owl, the small-eyed ray, Raia microcellata Mont., (or possibly Raia fallonica [read fullonica] Linn.). < as lemmas |
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